----- Original Message ----- From: "B.T.S. - Bill & Diane Wade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Howdy Friends > Got a new freight car detail set ready to ship.... #02304 Trailer Hitch Set $9.95 This white metal set includes the four parts for the hitch and the tire platforms. . . . . . . . Take care --- Bill > > > > > > > > > > ----------Response---------- These represent the collapsible type, required for "circus" loading. A person could get a few extra and assemble them in the collapsed position and use them when carrying containers on the flatcar. The only other thing necessary for an all-purpose flat car would be the container pedestals, which shouln't be hard to make.
I presume the "tire platform" is the part that raises the trailer for clearance as it rolls over the collapsed hitch in the circus loading process. Here's another use for these hitches. Remove (break the glue joint) the trailer hitch on the SHS TOFC car and put it back on farther forward. Add another hitch behind it and you can carry two of the short AHL trailers. This was done in the real world with flat cars of the SHS length. And another use. Remember when AM advertised a TOFC car, their flat car with one of their trailers? Apparently they dropped the idea, but now you can do it yourself. The side rub-rails shouldn't be hard to fabricate. And there's another TOFC car, to add variety. Tom Hawley --- Lansing Mich To REPLY to the list, use REPLY ALL; to reply to the sender, use REPLY. For those of you on DIGEST mode, all REPLY messages go to the list (remember to edit the SUBJECT of your message). Change message settings, use our CALENDAR or LINKS, view shared files or photos, view the list archives, GO TO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
